Relates to an exemption for certain property located in the county of Columbia from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school or church.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6665
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
opment and Small Business
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to an
exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales
within a certain distance of a church
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-17) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-17) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdi-
5 vision, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises
6 consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred
7 feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of
8 worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for the sale of
9 food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises located
10 wholly within the boundaries of the county of Columbia, bounded and
11 described as follows:
12 ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND situate, lying and being in
13 the City of Hudson, County of Columbia and the State of New York, more
14 particularly bounded and described as follows:
15 BEGINNING at a point formed by the intersection on the presumed
16 northeasterly line of Warren Street with the presumed southeasterly line
17 of Fourth Street at or near the corner of the brick building on this
18 property; thence running North 44 degrees, 15 minutes and 30 seconds
19 East for a distance of 77.65 feet and North 44 degrees, 15 minutes and
20 30 seconds East for a distance of 42.35 feet to the presumed southwes-
21 terly line of Prison Alley; thence running South 45 degrees, 44 minutes
22 and 30 seconds East for a distance of 20.29 feet, South 45 degrees, 44
23 minutes and 30 seconds East for a distance of 29.71 feet, and South 45
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 degrees, 44 minutes and 30 seconds East for a distance of 28.94 feet to
2 the lands now or formerly of White Whale Limited known as 408-410 Warren
3 Street and described in deed 749 page 1640; thence running South 44
4 degrees, 15 minutes and 30 seconds West for a distance of 120.00 feet to
5 the presumed northeasterly line of Warren Street; thence running North
6 45 degrees, 44 minutes and 30 seconds West for a distance of 28.94 feet
7 and North 45 degrees, 44 minutes and 30 seconds West for a distance of
8 50.00 feet to the point or place of beginning.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
